Category: EU Government News
The EC is proposing a negotiating stance of a near-total trade ban in bluefin tuna at the upcoming CITES meeting in Doha in a bid to save the fish from serious decline in the Mediterranean; it will also call for restrictions on trade in porbeagle and spiny dogfish shark. A weighted majority of EU member [...]
You may remember the furore when Recreational Sea Anglers (RSA) found them selves in the firing line for a series off ill thought out proposals intended to bring RSA into the Common Fisheries Policy. The wheeling and dealing has finally finished regarding the Control regulations. Article 55 (the old Art47 came into affect from January [...]
The Parliament’s fisheries committee yesterday (27 January) approved a report by Portuguese centre-right MEP Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, which calls for decision-making to be decentralised, and for fishermen and -women to be given more of a say over the management of stocks. Although this is a non-legislative report, it is significant in that it [...]
The EU and Norway today reached a deal on the management of fisheries this year and, separately, concluded a long-term joint agreement on the management of mackerel stocks. According to Norwegian officials, the two sides also agreed to increase controls and fisheries inspections and to cut quotas for cod, whiting, haddock and plaice in both [...]
THE annual rounds of talks to agree quotas for those fish stocks managed jointly by the EU and Norway have stalled at the end of what should have been the final session. They will continue into a fifth round in Bergen next week. The talks are part of a complex web of agreements and arrangements [...]
The Commission has launched a wide-ranging debate on the way that EU fisheries are managed. The aim is to gather views from all those with an interest in the future of Europe’s fisheries: fishermen, fish processors, retailers, environmentalists, consumers, taxpayers – in fact, every EU citizen, on their visions for the future of Europe’s fisheries [...]
Joe Borg’s speech to marine scientists and explaining why their advice was often ignored in the past, that the current shape of the SFP is flawed and that in the future management of the seas their advice will be essential – but will it be listened to ? Mr Borg’s speech. It is a pleasure [...]
The EU has abandoned its plans to push for a temporary ban through a CITES listing on fishing for bluefin tuna, loved by sushi fans but severely overfished, which would have given the fish a chance to recover, the EC argued. National experts from EU member states met on 21 September to consider a proposal [...]
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UK Initial Assessment and proposals for Good Environmental Status
Consultation Start: 27 March 2012 – Consultation End: 18 June 2012 This is a joint consultation between Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government and on the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The Directive requires Member States to take measures to achieve or maintain Good Environmental Status [...]
Argyll and the Isles coast and countryside trust
Argyll and Bute Council have formed a partnership steering group with Scottish Natural Heritage, Forestry Commission Scotland, ABSEN, and Argyll & Bute Local Services Initiative to look at the possibility of establishing a new independent trust. The proposed aim of the Trust would be to: ‘work together to sustainably maintain, enhance and promote the coast [...]
Marine Strategy Framework Directive Consultation Event
Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government are planning to launch a joint consultation on the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) on 27 March 2012. You will be able to find the consultation documents on the Defra web site http://www.defra.gov.uk/consult/open/ Defra will be hosting a stakeholder event [...]
Argyll & Bute – Coastal Development Strategy
Argyll and Bute Council are preparing a Coastal Development Strategy as part of their new Local Development Plan. One of the key sectors that will be considered in the Strategy is coastal tourism & recreation and therefore the Council is seeking information and views to ensure a relevant, effective and up to date strategy is [...]
EGPS & Renewable Energy Routemap consultations
The Scottish Government has published a Revised Draft Electricity Generation Policy Statement (EGPS) and a draft Renewable Energy Routemap. These draft policies together set out Scottish Government policy for low carbon energy generation. Both policies are now open for public consultation which ends 4 June 2012. A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) under the Environmental Assessment [...]
Marine Social and Economic Data Project 2012
Robust and current data is needed urgently in the marine environment where policy makers are dealing with a number of new legislative requirements such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the development of Marine Spatial Plans and the designation of new Marine Protected Areas. In response to this, EMU Limited in collaboration with the Marine [...]
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